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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1928

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Four Killed Week-end Toll Melb. Car Smashes Many Injured Melbourne

The Sun · Monday 30 January 1928 · page 2

Four persons wore killed and 20 Injured in motor car accidents during the week end. The casualty list was as…

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Motors Meet in Terrific Crash One Killed and Seven Injured Baby Hurled Yards

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 30 January 1928 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Sunday. -- William Henry Wyatt (70), of Wheeler's Hill, was killed and seven other persons were injured,…

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Little Girl's Amazing Fortitude Frightfully Injured Under Tram; She Suffers Without a Murmur Never Lost Consciousness

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 30 January 1928 · page 5

Though frightfully injured and in agonising pain, Eileen Stapleton (11), of Boyce Road, Maroubra, showed amazing fortitude when pinned under…

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Port Kembla Accidents. Wollongong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 30 January 1928 · page 12

James Day, employed at Hoskins' steel works, Port Kembla, was placing some sheets in the blast furnace when one of the lids became jammed. In trying to force it Day…

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Railway Accident. Second Victim's Death

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 30 January 1928 · page 7

Ada Hoy, aged 22 years, of Liverpool-mad. Cabramatta, who, with her sister, Edna, was seriously injured as a result of being run down by a train at Cabramatta railway…

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One Sister Dies Cabramatta Train Accident

The Labor Daily · Monday 30 January 1928 · page 5

Ada Hoy, 22, of Sydney Road, Cabramatta, one of the victim, of the shocking railway accident at Cabramatta Stu[?]on late on Friday night died…

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Shocking Fatality Trapped on Railway Two Killed : One Injured

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Tuesday 31 January 1928 · page 2

On Friday night, about 9 o'clock, three happy people, a young man and two young ladies, entered a Liverpool train at Sydney Central station…

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Death After Collision

The Sun · Tuesday 31 January 1928 · page 11

Cessnock, Tuesday.-- Roy Wile, aged 17, of Neath, who received a fracture of the skull when his bicycle and a car collided at the corner of…

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Collision with Car

Evening News · Tuesday 31 January 1928 · page 9

Late last night Leslie Henry Parsons of Junction-Street, Summer Hill, Was riding a motor cycle along Parramatta-road, when be came into collision with a…

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Drowned In Saving Wife

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 31 January 1928 · page 13

FORBES, Monday.--Three people were knocked down by cars, and one man was drowned in the river' over the week-end…

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Twin Brothers Drowned. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 January 1928 · page 6

Walter Smith and William Smith, aged 29 years, twin brothers, of Quesn's-road, Melbourne, were drowned at Eildon weir yesterday. They were in a canoe on the lake, when…

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Schoolteacher Injured Fractured Jaw

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Tuesday 31 January 1928 · page 5

Mr. Hubert Hoare, who is attached to the staff of the Auburn Public School, was knocked down by a cyclist on Saturday last, and later was admitted to…

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Lorry Overturns Four Injured Driver Charged

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Tuesday 31 January 1928 · page 1

Four people were injured late on Saturday night when a motor lorry overturned on Parramatta-road, Flemington They were:—…

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Injured Driver Dies West Maitland

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 31 January 1928 · page 1

Edward Charles Hanson. 14. who was injured while driving into a water hole at Thornton on Thursday, die in Mattland Hospital this morning…

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Randwick Smash Apprentice Injured Fell During Gallop

Evening News · Tuesday 31 January 1928 · page 2

AN apprentice rider. S. O'Dowd, had a narrow escape from serious Injury at Randwick to-day when his mount fell with him in the course…

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Under the Car Cyclist Injured Cessnock

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 31 January 1928 · page 1

Roy Witr. 17. was seriously injured when his cycle collided with a motor car driven by John Rogers, of Neath this afternoon, at the intersection of…

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Auburn Smash Car and Motor Lorry Several Injured

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Tuesday 31 January 1928 · page 1

A car collided with a motor lorry on Parramatta-road opposite the old Melton Hotel, Auburn, on Tuesday night, with the result that a middle-aged woman…

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Injured Bushman. Crawls Two Miles. Suffering From Broken Ribs. Kiama

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 January 1928 · page 12

Extraordinary endurance was displayed, by William Clarke (35), who, with an injured back and broken ribs, crawled about two miles to receive attention. Clarke was collecting…

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Flung Under Car Members of an Orchestra Four Badly Injured Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 31 January 1928 · page 1

FOUR persons, members of an orchestra, were seriously injured at Currum about 6 a.m. today. when a car in which they…

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Husband and Wife. Killed in Motor Accident. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 January 1928 · page 12

Mrs. Emma Elizabeth Wyatt (50), one of the five persons injured in the collision between two motor cars at Oakleigh last night, died to-day. Her husband, William Henry…

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